Intertextuality in Ugarit and Israel : : papers read at the tenth joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and het Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgie held at Oxford, 1997 / / edited by Johannes C. de Moor.

• Superior document: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies ; 40
• Author: Society for Old Testament Study.
• TeilnehmendeR: Moor, Johannes C. de, 1935-; Society for Old Testament Study.; Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en België.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies ; 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 pages)

In modern literary studies intertextuality is at the centre of interest. Although the relationship between texts has always been an important aspect of Old Testament studies, especially in literary criticism, the scale of comparison has broadened, including for example the interrelationships between the First, Second and Third Isaiah, or the whole Book of the Twelve. These relatively new approaches raise a number of methodical questions which were addressed at the Tenth Joint Meeting of the British Society for Old Testament Study and the Dutch 'Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap', held at Oxford, 22nd to 25th July 1997. Did the ancient authors have a well-defined concept of a book? How did they relate to the literary work of their predecessors and contemporaries? Can we trace the theological motifs behind their use of other literary compositions? What does an ancient version reveal about the way it interpreted its source text? One of the problems confronting biblical scholars in this kind of research is the lack of controllable models. Therefore it is useful to study the work of the Ugaritic chief priest Ilimilku whose three major literary compositions provide us with a unique possibility to monitor intertextual relationships in the work of one and the same ancient author. Ugaritic and other ancient Near Eastern parallels help us to understand how the Priestly writer re-interpreted the Yahwistic account of the creation of mankind. Apparently intertextuality in Israel is a phenomenon which cannot properly be understood without taking other literature from the ancient world into account.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Willem Prinsloo / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Abbreviations / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Introduction / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- What Is a Book? / John Barton -- The Hebrew Bible and Exegetical Tradition / Michael Fishbane -- Exegesis of the Exile - Exegesis of Scripture? / Harm W.M. van Grol -- Exegesis in the Septuagint Version of Hosea / Jan Joosten -- Exegesis in the Work of Ilimilku of Ugarit / Marjo C.A. Korpel -- The Duality in God and Man / Johannes C. de Moor -- Political Prophets? / David J. Reimer -- The Representation of King Ahaz in 2 Kings 16 and 2 Chronicles 28 / Klaas A.D. Smelik -- The Book of Judges: The Result of Post-Exilic Exegesis? / Janet E. Tollington -- Index of Authors / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Index of Tablets from Ugarit / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Index of Rabbinic Texts / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Index of Biblical Texts / Editor: Johannes C. De Moor -- Oudtestamentische Studiën / Editor: Johannes C. de Moor.